Bowie Kuhn, the bespectacled lawyer who oversaw baseball's transformation from sport to a business of free agents making multimillion-dollar salaries, died Thursday. He was 80.
The former commissioner died at St. Luke's Hospital in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., following a short illness, spokesman Bob Wirz said.
Kuhn presided for 15 tumultuous years, the second-longest tenure among nine commissioners.
When Kuhn took over from William Eckert on Feb. 4, 1969, baseball just...
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